David D'Arcy

Is the Israel Museum’s Birds’ Head Haggadah Nazi-era loot?

The manuscript was once owned by the family of a German-Jewish politician who opposed Hitler

Blind, 90-year-old son of Holocaust victims sues to find his family’s art

David Toren has filed a petition in New York State Supreme Court asking the Berlin auction house Villa Grisebach to reveal the buyers of works sold there

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A world away from the rest: David D'Arcy on Paula-Modersohn Becker at Galerie St. Etienne

A show of the artist's work reveals her proximity to and distance from both modernism and academicism

A man of many—tiny—letters

Collector, author and magician Ricky Jay on the 18th-century limbless entertainer Matthias Buchinger

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Secrets from a lost world: David D'Arcy on Martin Wong at the Bronx Museum

The exhibition is too stiff for the artist, but he shines through

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Holocaust survivor’s art last seen in Cuba

US foundation claims Castro regime seized paintings that Hitler failed to steal

Charles Moffett, former Sotheby’s vice chairman, dies at 70

Before working at the auction house for 16 years, he had a long and distinguished career as a curator at national museums

Abbas Kiarostami on his fixation with doors, the still image and carpentry

The Iranian film-maker is showing a photographic series he’s worked on for 20 years at Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum

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Tale behind Schiele watercolours is a tragedy—but is it a theft?

The heirs of the Viennese entertainer Fritz Grünbaum, who died in Dachau, go to court in New York to recover his art

Power to the people: Black Panthers’ illustrator Emory Douglas back on view

The graphic artist also served as the party’s culture minister in the 1960s and 70s

Satirical, playful, irreverent: David D’Arcy on the photographer Robert Frank

A new documentary about the photographer provides an intimate look

Artist and curator Noah Davis dies aged 32

Cultural entrepreneur founded the Underground Museum

Art docs on death and loss screened at Toronto festival

Films include Laurie Anderson on her late dog (and more subtly her husband Lou Reed), a glimpse at Afghanistan’s threatened film archives, and the staff of Charlie Hebdo on the terrorist attacks that killed 11 cartoonists

Murakami reveals surprise debt to Anselm Kiefer

Superstar artist provides exclusive insight into vast and eclectic collection before his Yokohama show—just don’t call him the Japanese Andy Warhol

A healthy dose of nature: David D’Arcy on van Gogh’s landscapes

An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute is a road map for the artist’s psychological journey

Isil holds heritage to ransom to fund fighters, US expert warns

Terrorist group functions as a modern racketeering operation through sale of plundered cultural objects

A family history made of concrete

An intimate portrait of 95-year-old Brutalist architect Gottfried Böhm and his remarkable family

Lacma buys ‘casta’ painting that was found under a sofa

The 18th-century work is an early example of racial profiling

Scholars rush to save a 5,000 year-old archaeological site

A new film looks at Mes Aynak, an archaeological treasure that may soon be buried

Alfred Taubman: art and root beer

The shopping-mall entrepreneur and former chairman of Sotheby's, has died, aged 91

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Basquiat's footnotes, made into an exhibition

The Brooklyn Museum offers a slice of Jean-Michel Basquiat's pre-history

US refusal to protect Cuban art threatens Bronx Museum show

Ambitious joint venture between New York and Havana at risk as State Department remains unwilling to grant immunity from seizure for Cuban loans

Canada under pressure over potential Nazi loot

Montreal museum returns painting amid growing calls to fund provenance research and return disputed works

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Toronto theatre mogul David Mirvish to stage his own shows

Will the Canadian collector showcase his expansive modern art collection?